Example sentences of "[adv] make much [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But none of these was strong enough to make much difference to the general picture of eighteenth-century Europe as overwhelmingly monarchical . |
| 2 | ‘ I feel that it could be boxed in by bureacracy and not make much contribution to a company 's performance . ’ |
| 3 | Because I had not done much mathematics at school or at Oxford , I found general relativity very difficult at first and did not make much progress . |
| 4 | His friend does not make much response , and much of the time his eyes are closed . |
| 5 | However , to say that one bank , or one wind direction , is always better than another does not make much sense . |
| 6 | Of course , they may not accept the beliefs , attitudes , or intentions that are expressed ; one can always object to what somebody else says , but it does not make much sense to do this unless one understands its meaning . |
| 7 | As usual , one of these aspects of life does not make much sense without the other . |
| 8 | Without it , the main clause would not make much sense : The architect who designed the National Theatre is Sir Dennis Lasdun . |
| 9 | Analyses of Chinese statues and coins show that they did not make much use of brass until about the sixteenth century AD . |
| 10 | The capture of the village yesterday evening did not make much difference to our situation in and around the village . |
| 11 | A second major defect of UDG was that it did not make much difference to cities as a whole . |
| 12 | In practical terms it may not make much difference to consumers when they do that . ’ |
| 13 | She may find new capabilities in herself and her present machine , advanced technology does not make much difference to the finished result and costs a lot . |
| 14 | Air power will not make much difference ; aircraft can work wonders in a high-tech modern war , but preventing a sudden sprint out of the trees is not one of them . |
| 15 | And to be quite truthful with you , this morning did not make much difference either . |
| 16 | This uncertainty is not so important at the present time , when things are far apart , so that a small uncertainty in position does not make much difference . |
| 17 | The food was excellent and I was not charged much because the cooking was done on quite a large scale — I was not a big eater so my lunch did not make much difference to the running of the place . |
| 18 | However , these did not make much difference as the largest families tended to be the poorest families who paid little in the way of direct tax . |
| 19 | Observers suggest that the White Paper 's proposals will not make much difference to the overall amount of coal burnt in the UK , although a greater proportion will be likely to come form UK sources . |
| 20 | The latest findings may not make much difference to clinical practice in this country . |
| 21 | But Leeds ' own tartan terror , Gordon Strachan , insists it does not make much difference to players with championship credentials . |
| 22 | They turned increasingly to those areas where the British and the French had not made much progress : to the Balkans , Turkey and South America . |
| 23 | The long moralistic campaigns of Mrs Mary Whitehouse directed at BBC television had not made much headway . |
| 24 | The ending of the Cold War has not made much difference to the well-being of this country or the extent of the manufacture of weapons . |
| 25 | There have been some minor revisions of these rules recently , since the European Court ruled that they were discriminatory against women , but this has not made much difference . |
| 26 | The head explained to Mrs Singh that Balbinder was not making much progress and that because of class sizes he would be unlikely to receive the kind of attention he needed . |
| 27 | But I was not making much progress because I did n't have much mathematical background — and anyway , I might not live long enough to finish my Ph.D . |
| 28 | He had been trying a pipe recently , but was not making much progress . |
| 29 | Well , I think some days she 's better than others , but on the whole she 's not making much progress . |
| 30 | He knew that she was not making much headway with finding the nonce , but in fairness neither was he . |